April 12, 2024
1900 TRAVELS of Sir John MANDEVILLE Cotton Modern
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! The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. By Sir John Mandeville 1900 - London - Macmillan and Co. 9" by 6", xv, 390pp DETAILS A turn of the century edition of this famous fictitious travelogue in a smart crushed morocco leather binding. The version of the Cotton Manuscript in modern spelling. With three narratives, in illustration of it, from Hakluyt's 'Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries'. "Mandeville, Sir John (supp. fl. c.1357), supposed writer, was assumed to have written the Voyages de Jehan de Mandeville chevalier , which appeared anonymously in France c.1357; the name of the work's author is unknown. The book is a vernacular account of the known world, loosely based upon the alleged travels of its narrator, and was immediately and immensely popular... The intention of the author to produce a popular account of the world in French was possibly part of the fashion for such exotica that flourished in and about Paris c.1350. Though the framework of the narration by Sir John Mandeville is fictitious, the substance is not. There can be no doubt whatsoever that the author reported in good faith what his authorities recorded and that his book was seriously intended" -DNB. CONDITION In a full crushed morocco leather binding. Externally, some shelfwear, with white marks. The joints just starting. Internally, firmly bound, generally
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